Shadow PVP.

Hi Everyone.

I found myself in the situation last night in Twin Peaks where i was 1v1 with a warrior inside our base, judging from the warrior's HP pool and gear 329k HP / Greens and Blues i was rubbing my hands at the fact of a free kill or so i thought. My gear is not the best yet i expect full dreadful and x3 Mael pieces to give me a slight edge over someone with leveling gear. As i opened up i got my dots off to which i was stunned / silenced and locked down as per usual with a warrior. Then i realized this warrior had cut through me like a knife through butter i was in fact at 38% HP and he was at 70% or so, i then slightly started to panic and managed to get the kill in the end, although reading my combat log this warrior with bad gear had really nuked my socks off and it made me rather annoyed that i was clearly better geared / had 45k more HP or so and it just clearly did not matter now i take into consideration that this warrior was a good player and i hold my hands up i was quite annoyed at my performance last night in general even though i top most damage meters on a regular basis but by god is it me or are shadow priests just useless against warrior classes at this moment in time or is it just me being terrible haha which most of you might say but hey i want to hear your opinions. I find lately that most geared warriors will quite easily after a struggle kill me even after blowing my CD's. Any comments are welcome that are helpful to possibly give me some more support as i am losing my confidence in me playing me priest and i dont want to have to re roll a warrior just to feel amazing o_o.

Warriors always have been a counter class for pries, but the way it is now... is indeed retarded.

the only chance of getting some freedom is hoping the warrior is stupid enough to use his berserker rage,
then fear him so he trinkets and then root him with void tendrils. that wil give you some time to get away/ get some cast off.

further its waiting and hoping someone is comming to help you.

---------- Post added 2013-01-25 at 08:46 AM ----------

Originally Posted by Downz

If he sits on you, you will die. Gear makes a difference to an extent. But if you aren't attempting to kite/move/disarm or likewise, there's a high possibility you'll still get trucked.

Then wat do you advise... to get away from a warrior?
im rooting them fearing them trying disperse to get away.
and where should i get the shadow orb from to have a disarm?? evry mb i want to cast im getting stunned, interupted, etc. etc...

I must admit i think there is far to much CC implemented into PVP now for casters you rarely actually cast or get time to without being bashed with CC, instant casts are the only way forward so affliction warlocks and frost / fire mages have advantage we however get mind spike when it procs... doesn't seem balanced. Good warriors just sit on me until im dead quite clearly if they use their CDs well i am free meat and i am bored of coming up against the warrior class because its just bye bye me, however i don't think i should try everything in my power and be forced to spec defensively with glyphs / spells and stack resilience just to combat this.

Welcome to MOP.
As Spriest you'll lose to rogues, warriors, hunters and dks if they've got the same itmlvl and skill, period.
Not to forget our healing gets nerfed next patch and our burst is a load of crap.

Warriors are a fairly hard counter to spriest. They have an answer for everything we got, with our main breather button being scream and they're fear break on similar cool downs they are very hard to take down. Your only chance to out last him. When the fight starts and as much as you can try to run circles around the warrior. No seriously a lot of warriors end up missing their shockwave because of it, heal as much as the warrior will allow, CC as much as you can while watching for zerker rage(obviously). Other then that they're a overall hard counter for us right now.

Berserker Rage makes killing a warrior impossible. Don't even be mad at yourself.

This. More OP than fear ward and tremor. He can use it on EVERY fear. The only thing you can do here is if you have the tier gloves and fear on ON CD so you at least win 3 seconds, or 6 if you get it a third time.

Also, please avoid wall of text. For instance take a look at this sentence of yours:

", although reading my combat log this warrior with bad gear had really nuked my socks off and it made me rather annoyed that i was clearly better geared / had 45k more HP or so and it just clearly did not matter now i take into consideration that this warrior was a good player and i hold my hands up i was quite annoyed at my performance last night in general even though i top most damage meters on a regular basis but by god is it me or are shadow priests just useless against warrior classes at this moment in time or is it just me being terrible haha which most of you might say but hey i want to hear your opinions"

I also struggle embarassingly against the constant interrupting of WW monks untill there's a point they just rising+blackout kick me for like 200k and finish me off with a 70k touch of death.

I get raped in a more rude way then i got against warriors and it drives me mad, help me guys. I watch out for Karmas and their reflective CDs, still i just can't counter that pretty much one shot moment.

I do very fine against good mages (oh well, i tend to cannibalize mages lol) hunters DKs...given the warriors, but struggling the way i do against monks and rogues is silly for me. What the f* i do wrong !?!?

This. More OP than fear ward and tremor. He can use it on EVERY fear. The only thing you can do here is if you have the tier gloves and fear on ON CD so you at least win 3 seconds, or 6 if you get it a third time.

Also, please avoid wall of text. For instance take a look at this sentence of yours:

", although reading my combat log this warrior with bad gear had really nuked my socks off and it made me rather annoyed that i was clearly better geared / had 45k more HP or so and it just clearly did not matter now i take into consideration that this warrior was a good player and i hold my hands up i was quite annoyed at my performance last night in general even though i top most damage meters on a regular basis but by god is it me or are shadow priests just useless against warrior classes at this moment in time or is it just me being terrible haha which most of you might say but hey i want to hear your opinions"

There's no period in all of that..... so it's really hard to read.

Sorry i will attempt to write less when posting just to make it easier to read for you.

I have however been testing different things out to counter damage from melee class especially warriors and i found my meta gem / glyph setup really does help me atm to sustain melee damage and survive.

If you couldnt kill a warrior with blues then you are clearly doing something wrong bro. Either u r blowing ur def cds at once or not using them to ur advantage. a Shadow Priest can kill any dps class. Some maybe be harder than others say a warrior but u can kill it no matter what. How long have u been pvping on ur priest? can u link ur amory maybe? or at least tell us what happened during ur fight with that warr.

If you couldnt kill a warrior with blues then you are clearly doing something wrong bro. Either u r blowing ur def cds at once or not using them to ur advantage. a Shadow Priest can kill any dps class. Some maybe be harder than others say a warrior but u can kill it no matter what. How long have u been pvping on ur priest? can u link ur amory maybe? or at least tell us what happened during ur fight with that warr.

He did link his armory and gave a little of what happened. But spriest is far from the most OP cloth. And clearly you have not played against a non-braindead arms warrior in MoP yet.

And at that, he did kill the warrior in the end. I'm doubting you read anything in the thread.

Warriors are not a big issue imo, even before they got nerfed me and a mage got 2x warrs in an arena game and they loled all over my magefriend and then ended up being soloed by me when they both had like 100% hp. Warlocks and Hunters can on the other hand be really annoying

warrior is a spriest counter. but if u gonna start a pvp situation u should start with orbs up and shield up. open hard on him and use pet then pop spectral guise that will give u chance to hardcast again, once he reaches u use tendrils. after that try and stay in a range when he cant charge u again. and try to juke him when he does.